Cobalt is the pioneer of Pentest as a Service (PtaaS), pairing a curated community of vetted offensive-security experts (the Cobalt Core) with a SaaS platform that turns penetration testing from a months-long procurement exercise into an on-demand, continuous program. Founded in 2013, the company now serves 1,500+ customers and is leaning hard into AI-augmented offensive security.
Ivan Novikov is the founder and CEO of Wallarm, an AI-powered API security platform that has raised over $70 million in funding including a $55M Series C in 2025. With 24+ years in cybersecurity, he is recognized as the inventor of memcached injection attacks and a pioneer of SSRF research, having earned bug bounty awards from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tesla, and Yandex. A Y Combinator S16 alumnus with a physics background from Moscow State University, Novikov transformed hands-on offensive security expertise into a company protecting APIs for enterprises worldwide.
Jack Cable is the CEO and co-founder of Corridor, a San Francisco-based AI security startup that raised a $25M Series A at a $200M valuation in March 2026. Before founding Corridor, Cable spent years at CISA architecting the Secure by Design initiative, helped run the Pentagon's bug bounty programs at Defense Digital Service, and ranked in HackerOne's all-time top 100 hackers. Named to TIME's 25 Most Influential Teens in 2018 at age 17, he started identifying software vulnerabilities at 15 and hasn't stopped since.